Episode 679: The Stories We Tell About Our Bodies in the Mirror
There is a voice that shows up every time you step in front of the mirror. It has opinions. It compares, it critiques, it comments on everything.
And most of us have been so immersed in it for so long that we have stopped noticing it is even there.
In this episode I make the case that the internal narrative running in your head while you get dressed is not neutral. It is a health variable. The body does not distinguish between an external threat and an internal one, and the daily verdict delivered in the mirror activates a stress response that has a real cumulative physiological cost. I also…
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